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Woman Posts TikTok Of 5-Hour Self-Isolation In Airplane Bathroom After COVID Test Mid-Flight

A Michigan teacher suddenly began feeling sick in the middle of a flight from Chicago to Reykjavík, Iceland last week, and so she took the precaution of taking a rapid COVID test on the plane. To her shock, she tested positive. So , the woman — a teacher named Marisa Fotieo — decided to do […]

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NFL Reporter Dies From Colon Cancer In Same Hospice Where Wife Passed Of Melanoma Two Years Prior

This is just so, so awful. Jeff Dickerson, a sports reporter and journalist who covered the Chicago Bears of the NFL for the last two decades, has died from complications of colon cancer. He was 44 years old. Related: Nick Cannon Opens Up About Infant Son’s Brief Life Cut Short By Brain Cancer Dickerson had joined ESPN Chicago way […]

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Celebrity Stylist Law Roach Reveals His 3-Year-Old Nephew Passed Away After Falling Out Of 17-Story Window

This is heartbreaking… Law Roach , the celebrity stylist who often works with Zendaya , Anya Taylor-Joy , Kerry Washington , and other A-listers, revealed in a series of Instagram Stories that his 3-year-old nephew, Lamar Roach Jr. , passed away. He wrote in a since-deleted post on Saturday, People reported: “Thank you all for […]

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Unknown John Wayne Gacy Victim Identified After 45 Years

It’s been 45 years and the victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy (above) are still being identified… According to authorities on Monday, a North Carolina man who moved to Chicago in the late ‘70s was one of the young men murdered by the killer. Identified as Francis Wayne Alexander, he would have been about […]

Tech

Please stop adding more lanes to busy highways—it doesn’t help

Enlarge / The intersection of Interstates 10 and 610 in Houston, Texas, during evening rush hour. (credit: Getty Images) You often hear people say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I bring this up because of an interesting—if infuriating—thread I read this morning […]

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People Are PISSED Kanye West Brought Out Marilyn Manson & DaBaby At Donda Listening Event

Kanye West really is a genius because no one else could keep coming up with new ways to cause controversy like this. Over the last few years, the artist soon to be known as Ye has done a lot of damage to his legacy. Supporting Donald Trump, saying slavery was a “choice,” his ill-fated presidential […]

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Are Kim & Kanye Back Together?? She Wore A WEDDING DRESS At His Donda Event — And Twitter Reacts!

Kanye West knows how to make headlines, that’s for sure! The Chicago-born rapper went home on Thursday night for another Donda album listening party, this time at the Windy City’s Soldier Field. And during the party, among other wild and crazy moments that have us scratching our head, he really went over the top by going through a […]

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Rapper KTS Dre Dead After Being Shot OVER 60 TIMES As He Left Jail

A Chicago-based rapper died from over 60 gunshot wounds in a shooting that took place right after he was released from jail. According to reports, Londre Sylvester (pictured above) — who went by the stage name KTS Dre — was apparently ambushed after walking out of the Cook County Jail on Saturday night. A police […]

Sport

Chicago doesn’t need your tired whataboutism, Kaycee Sogard

I don’t know Kaycee Sogard, the wife of Chicago Cubs infielder Eric Sogard. What little I do know about her, I garnered her epic, self-imposed Twitter meltdown last night, which happened, conveniently, just as the Cubs were losing to the Pirates 6-3. Read more…

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Kelley Flanagan Says She’d ‘Consider’ Being The Next Bachelorette After Kicking Pilot Pete To The Curb

Do y’all think Kelley Flanagan has what it takes to be the next leading lady on The Bachelorette?! It sure seems as though she thinks she can handle it! And maybe she can — goodness knows there’s a lack of good leading ladies (and men!) ready for the spotlight at this point in the franchise’s long, storied […]